Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool (github.com)

by bretthopper 45 comments 100 points
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[−] notepad0x90 34d ago
Nice to see first-class RDAP support.

Feature Request: BGP route lookup using looking glasses of your choice, and Peeringdb lookup for the ASN. https://www.peeringdb.com/apidocs/

[−] retlehs 34d ago
Thanks for the request! Shipped both in https://github.com/retlehs/quien/pull/4
[−] indigodaddy 34d ago
Another feature request. Why not have a nice webui interface to this? Obviously could just vibecode something on top of what you did but putting it out there that that would be cool
[−] retlehs 34d ago
The goal was a fast terminal tool, and I'm not ruling it out, but considering how hard it would be to compete in the SERPs with other whois sites, I don't think I'd spend the time on it right now
[−] indigodaddy 33d ago
Why would you care about competing with other whois sites? I don't think it's going to be a money making venture in any case, and you could easily host it for free on fly.io
[−] retlehs 33d ago
This was really just a personal tool I built because I got tired of parsing default whois output. Don’t have the bandwidth for a web UI right now, maybe down the road.

It’s not about making money. It’s more that there’s no real way for people to discover it by competing for visibility on whois-related searches against established sites.

[−] gigatexal 34d ago
Everyone asking was this vibe coded should calm down. Instead we should just have automated ways to audit the code to see if it’s secure, see if it’s going to steal our keys, etc.

If it provides value who cares?

I mean we could read the code to see if it does anything nefarious. Or have a bought do a check or checks.

But asking every time there’s a show HN is it vibe coded is such gatekeeping elitest nonsense it makes me angry.

[−] absqueued 33d ago
This is super cool, I had made one similar but with web/GUI. [1]

https://pluswhois.com

[−] faangguyindia 33d ago
Thanks for this, it's very useful to me :)
[−] m0d0nne11 31d ago
Installation instructions for Ubuntu / Debian are curl -fsSL https://apt.quien.dev/install.sh | sudo sh

Seriously? Yikes!

[−] johng 34d ago
Looks well done, nice looking TUI. Does not specify if it's vibe coded or not, which I think should be normal practice now ;(